January 23rd, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua On some hacking forums user of ZeuS expressed disappointment as they are not finding improvement in the malware program. The problem that they need to update source code to find new bugs allows having more income. According to Brian Krebs article malware writer will not just sell you the product but they provide customers with [...]
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No Comments » August 24th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New spamming campaign has been reported by Trend micro. This type of malware is spreading through Facebook. The downloaded malware is another type of Zbot, also called Zeus a Trojan horse that attempts to steal confidential information from the compromised computer. It may also download configuration files and updates from the Internet. Malware spreads by [...]
Posted in Malwares, Social Networking Tags: Malware Research, Trend Micro, Zeus, Zeus bot 2 Comments » November 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Botnet Number that is controlled over web servers are five times the number of botnets controlled by IRC-channels this is according to a new research conducted by Team Cymru Security experts. The IRC botnet has decreased significantly due to some limitation over controlling and sending different instruction by the command-and-control (C&C) servers. “the US is [...]
September 28th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Zeus banking Trojan, which targets Windows-based computers, is now being used to target victims’ mobile phones too, according to several researchers. Fortinet said today that it had uncovered new mobile malware dubbed SymbOS/Zitmo, which stands for Zeus in the Mobile, that is most likely designed to intercept confirmation text messages that banks send to [...]
July 14th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Hackers have created a new version of the Zeus crimeware toolkit that’s designed to swipe bank login details of Spanish, German, UK and US banks. The malware payload, described by CA as Zeus version 3, is far more selective in the banks it targets. Previous versions targeted financial institutions around the world while the latest [...]
December 12th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cybercriminals have made this week unforgettable for Amazon team this is after that security researchers have reported existing of Zeus Botnet at The cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) control center. The incident has been detected after a Password-stealing Zeus banking Trojan had infected client computers where hackers were able to compromise a site on EC2 [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, Cybercrime & Hacking, News Tags: Amazon EC2, Malware, Zeus bot 8 Comments »
